Archive for the 'Health' Category
Joel Salatin and Polyface Farms
August 30th, 2007For me, comprehension of the way industrial scale (including “Organic”) food worked was the last straw. Many aspects of politics and society are disturbing, but toxic—and or long distance—food isn’t some theoretical, far out, future threat. The wolf is at the door. It’s right here, right now. The food issue, more than anything else, drove […]
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
August 25th, 2007Becky and I wash our hair with vinegar and baking soda. We brush our teeth with toothpaste made from baking soda, vegetable glycerin and salt. We use plant based bar soap for hand washing and bathing and plant based detergents for dishes and laundry. Becky makes a moisturizing lotion out of raw aloe vera. For […]
Electric Fields Kill Tumors
August 8th, 2007For those of you who know that this news is about 75 years old, don’t hold your breath waiting to read the word Rife anywhere in this article. Since there is so much snake oil being pushed as Rife technology, I suppose it’s a good thing that this company is finally forcing the medical establishment […]
Womb-on-a-Chip May Boost IVF Successes
July 27th, 2007Via: New Scientist: Can conception, the most intimate of human experiences, be automated? Teruo Fujii of the University of Tokyo in Japan and his colleagues are building a microfluidic chip to nurture the first stages of pregnancy. They hope, eventually, to create a fully automated artificial uterus in which egg and sperm are fed in […]
The Dark Side of Soy
July 3rd, 2007Via: Utne Reader: As someone who is conscious of her health, I spent 13 years cultivating a vegetarian diet. I took time to plan and balance meals that included products such as soy milk, soy yogurt, tofu, and Chick’n patties. I pored over labels looking for words I couldn’t pronounce–occasionally one or two would pop […]
China: Food Crops Grown in Soil Polluted with Heavy Metals
July 3rd, 2007Devastation. Via: Wall Street Journal / Moneyweb: For nearly two decades, Lai Mandai regularly ate and sold beans, cabbage and watermelons grown on a plot of land a short walk from a lead smelting plant in her village. Like dozens of other villagers who ate locally grown food, Ms. Lai, 39 years old, developed health […]
DCA: Letter from Dr. Evangelos Michelakis
June 9th, 2007I’m making a contribution to the University of Alberta to help this research along in a small way. The diabolical pharmaceutical industry will oppose this to the extent possible. It’s up to us to make it happen. Establishment science could accomplish good things if it wasn’t serving evil most of the time. Let’s help these […]
Vitamin D and Cancer
June 9th, 2007Many of us have known this for years, but as with everything, the Vitamin D issue is much more complex than it appears at first glance. Before reading the Globe and Mail article below, and running out to get a bottle of vitamins, please read these articles: The Miracle of Vitamin D and… Vitamin A, […]
Superbugs Emerge Among Urban Poor
May 29th, 2007Via: MyWay / AP: Drug-resistant staph infections have spread to the urban poor, rising almost seven-fold in recent years in some Chicago neighborhoods, a new study finds. Researchers said the crowded living conditions of public housing and jails may speed up the person-to-person spread of infection. The superbugs, first seen mainly in hospitals and nursing […]
Some Soft Drinks Cause Cell Damage
May 27th, 2007Remember DCA as a possible cancer therapy? That targeted functioning of the mitochondria: Scientists and doctors have used DCA for decades to treat children with inborn errors of metabolism due to mitochondrial diseases. Mitochondria, the energy producing units in cells, have been connected with cancer since the 1930s, when researchers first noticed that these organelles […]
